@FlonnesIkramant
I really don’t think the artist should care about downvotes from the likes of you, ie. the “lesbian porn is great, reminders that lesbians exist in the real world is not” crowd.
You say you hate these sort of images; have you tried finding tags to filter them out? There’s "gay pride" right there, at the least.
As much fun as everyone appears to be having talking about this here, it would be much better, more respectful to the artist, and more in keeping with our rules, if everyone who wants to talk about whether art should be subtle, and whether mouthpiece images should exist or not, would create a forum thread to have that discussion.
@FlonnesIkramant
Why do they have to be subtle? If someones allowed to draw ponies in a nativity scene (>>1323980) why can’t we draw ponies being proud that they’re gay.
@The Frowning Pony
eh
I disagree. Art can be in spite, to spite, what have you. Especially when it comes to treating queer people equally, I want to have confrontation. I want them to be confronted with the fact that they’re wrong, and people think so. If I’m confronted daily by bigots who want to say that I’m disgusting for being bisexual, then I get to confront them about being ignorant bigots.
@mylittleyuri
I think you could be a bit more subtle like draw a picture where they are both happy together or in love or something and post the thing about gay pride as trivia in the description so it’s not the topic of the picture (Did you know that today is …). I think that would get you less downvotes.
@FlonnesIkramant
one word: headcanon. you are assuming I’m insisting everyone see starlight and Trixie as lesbians when I clearly am not. some people ship starburst and I’m perfectly ok with it. I HEADCANON Trixie and starlight as lesbians but am open and support other headcanons about them.
@The Frowning Pony
I have nothing against people having the characters be gay in a story or porn and in fact I liked some of that, too but I don’t like it if people insist that certain characters are gay and try to force that opinion. That’s why I upvoted that other picture since it went against that. They were both mouthpieces but also jokes since they were a meme. There are of course other opinions I hold personally, too. In fact, I can not remember what I disliked or liked in the past and my attitude towards certain things has changed since then. You could probably find something incriminating if you search hard enough.
Regardless of whether I like this picture or not this is still deserving of the mouthpiece tag, tho:
“An image where the artist is forcing canon characters to espouse a particular real-world viewpoint or sentiment, often the artist’s own, whether or not the character might be reasonably expected to hold similar opinions.”
@ParaspritePatrol
Drawing something like this in spite of people is good; drawing anything to spite people is bad. Don’t foster confrontation for the sake of confrontation or “revenge”, that only leads to entrenchment, escalation, and resentment, no matter the topic.
